Consortium backed by US NIH is first major biology programme to mandate online publication of results ahead of peer review.

Embargoes allow journals, universities, nonprofits, and corporations to decide what’s important — and when. That should be up to journalists.

On behalf of UK institutions, Jisc Collections has signed an agreement with Elsevier, covering access to research publications. The five-year, opt-in agreement offers subscription access to around 2,116 journals on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect online platform.

John Wiley & Sons Inc. announced today plans to require ORCID iDs as part of the manuscript submission process for a large number of journals. Beginning in winter 2016, more than 500 Wiley journals using ScholarOne Manuscripts will require the submitting author (only) to provide an ORCID identifier (iD) when submitting a manuscript. Wiley is proud to be the first major publisher to join other stakeholders that have signed ORCID’s open letter.

Every scientist wants his or her paper to appear in Cell, Nature or Science. In today’s scientific world, being associated with such publications is synonymous with prestige and excellence, opening doors to top positions and coveted awards.

Scientific publications are getting more and more names attached to them

Congress is poised to approve a massive piece of legislation that would provide the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with $4.8 billion over the next decade for a set of research initiatives, including brain and cancer research and efforts to develop so-called precision medicine treatments that are tailored to an individual’s genetic makeup.

Women and men are equally able to perform excellent frontier research. This is the view of ERC Scientific Council. Each process within the ERC - from creating awareness about the ERC to signing of grant agreements – is designed to give equal opportunities to men and women. To monitor gender balance in ERC calls, in 2008, the ERC set up a dedicated working group. 

Experiments are invaluable and have, in the past, shown the consensus opinion of experts to be wrong. But those who fetishize this methodology can also impair progress toward the truth.

As the Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rises comes into force this month, these are the universities that have, between 2011 and 2015, produced the environmental science research with the greatest impact

Bylines on scientific papers are multiplying, but this doesn't reflect more science being done

An unexpected autumn statement windfall for research, innovation and industrial strategy has given scientists their first bit of cheer for a while

Making up names and CVs is one of the latest tricks to game scientific metrics.

The rise of predatory conferences

Twenty percent of medical researchers do up to 95 percent of the peer reviewing.

A good idea is important of course, but much of the success of a start-up enterprise relies on it setting up in the right place.

A judge has ordered Marie-Ève Maille to provide names and transcripts from her study on a wind farm